Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 13:08:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jeff Hamilton <gandolf@destiny.erols.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help!  FreeBSD won't boot...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905121307350.23756-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905071412560.65787-100000@destiny.erols.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Jeff Hamilton wrote:

> I'm running FreeBSD-2.2.8-STABLE on a Pentium 120 with 64 MB ram.  / and
> /usr on on a 1 GB ide hard drive on the first ide controller.  / is
> /dev/wd0s1a, and /usr is /dev/wd0s2e.  The /home and other data partitons
> are on other disks.
> 
> When I rebooted the PC yesterday to remove a dead floppy drive, FreeBSD
> wouldn't boot.  It loads the kernel, fsck's all the filesystems (all are
> reported clean), and then dies with:
> 
> mount: /dev/wd0s1a on /: Operation not permitted.

They aren't clean if you get this in single user mode.  Rerun fsck with
the -y option against all the filesystems.

> It leaves me in single-user mode with a read only / filesystem.  I tried
> mounting other filesystems, such as /usr, but I get the same error.  I
> also manually fsck'd all systems, but it still won't mount them.

That's the only thing that spits that message in single user, AFAIK.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.03.9905121307350.23756-100000>